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Depends on your personal choices as a hobbyist. Me, I would probably be better off with a cloud service as I like the latest versions of the OS. Having to live within the constraints of a version long out of service would slay me.
Business wise I find it horrific when I have a vendor who runs some ancient machine. When they send me crap that needs to be recompiled before I can even install it I go ballistic. When they rely upon their customers to tell them if it works on the latest OS or not I get ill.

Perhaps you could get a version of Linux to run on such a machine. However, would even that be limited to older versions of Linux?

But I find no value to IBM easing the restrictions on hobbyists running obsolete versions of the OS on obsolete versions of the hardware.
And the risk of businesses using easing of such restrictions to skirt around the rules is too great. After all look at the number of people who scratch install every 70 days to get past some licensing issues.

Rob Berendt

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